Adjustable truck.



J. PORTEOUS.

ADJUSTABLE TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 9, 1910.

979 993 Patented Dec. 20, 1910.

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ADJUSTABLE TRUCK.

Specification of I; tern Patent.

Patented Dec. 20, 191%.

Application filed August 9 1810.. Serial 1%. 576.334.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that 1, Lines Pon'rnoi's, a citizen of the United Statesgrcsidinxr at Fresno, in the county of Fresno and State of California, have invented certain new and useful improvements in AdjustableTrucks. of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of trucks in which the body and wheeled axles are so related by a c 'ank connection that by the movement of the truck handle the body; may he raised and lowered. These trucks are -onnnonly employed in trzumlbrring trays of fruit, which bein piled upon cleats at one station of any p icular process to which the fruit being subjected, have to be taken to another station. This transfer is effected by lowering the truck body and running it under the tray pile; ihen raising the body up under this pile thereby lifting he trays from the cleats and supporting the 3. on the truck; and thereupon running the truck over to the other station and by depressing the body, lowering the tray pile upon supporting cleats; and finally withdra "ing the truck.

In trucks of this type the crank connec tions by which the vertical movement of the body is ail'eoted are operated by the handle of the truck and it is customary to so connectthe handle by its bell-crank and yoke directly to the front axle that under the movement of the handle up or down, the front axle is bodily moved forward or back relatively to the body, which movement. through crank connections between the axle and body causes the vertical movementof the latter. It is also customary to locate the pressure connection or the handle yoke with the axle at points inside the wheels, the crank connections being outside; and in order to make the front and rear axles art in unison, they are connected by ha in which the axles are journaled. said bars lying also inside the wheels. The front axle is thus jot inner: in both the yoke end and the foe ward ends of the connectin and the rear a. lo jouiaialed in t l rear ends of said bars.

The handle of the use as lever to vert h also used to move the truck along its; ln'this latter use, itis often found that the pressure on the handle will ans binding of the ex in their several journals, the axles in these tracks being rotary ones with a It? '1: addition to the wheel fast upon them. This binding is due both to the direct journal connection of the handle yoke with the front axle and to the journal bearings of the bars connecting directly the two axles, and the result is that the truck is either hard to propel or will not move at all. y

The object of my invention is to provide an adjustable truck of this general type in which the connections are such that under the propelling pressure oi the handle there will be no binding of the axles andthe truck will move freely and easily under all circumstances. ii

)ly invention consists in the novel con struction and arrangement of parts which I shall now fnllydescribe and claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in. whioh- Figure l is a view of my truck with the body lowered. Fig. is a view of the same, the body being raised.

l is'the front axle, and 2 are the front. wheels fast on the front axle.

3 is the rear axle, and 4 are the'rear wheels also fast on their axle.

is the truck body and 6' is its handle.

Pivoted upon the projecting ends of the front axle, outside of the wheels, one at each end of said axle, is a crank lever 7, the upper 7 arm 8 of which has the forward stop 9 and the rear stop 10, and said arm is pivoted in :1 lug- 11 bolted up under the side bar of the body 5. The lower arm 12 of this crank lever is. n-eferabl Y bifurcated and is rovided with two holes, one to receive at 13- the pivotal connection of the handle yoke 14, and the other to receive at; 15 the pivotal connection of the forward end of the connecting bars 16.

The handle 6 has a bell-crank end at 17 which is pivoted at its angle in a lug 18 on the front of the body 5. To this bell-crank end of the handle is connected the forward end of the yoke 14:. I

19 are stops for the yoke on the front of the body.

Pivoted upon the-projecting ends of the rear iii-Il beyond the wheels, one at each end is the crank-lever 30. the upper arm ill of which has the forward stop 22 and the rear stop 23, and said arm is pivoted in a lug 2-Jlbolted up under the body The lower arm 25 of the crank lever 20 has pivotally connested to it at 26 the rear end of the 'connecting bar 16.

' to lower the body 5, and as shown in Fig. 2 r

' journal on the axles the latter said upper As is shown in Fig. 1, When the handle is lifted, the crank levers 7 and 20 are thrown 3 pulling down of the handle, throws the i 7 and 20 to raise the body These the levers movements are effected easily, and when the handle is used to propel the truck there is no binding of the axles, as neither the handle 5 yoke nor the connecting bars have any direct being free of all bearings except those by which the crank r levers are pivoted upon them.

Having thus described my invention What 9 I claim as new and desire to secure by Leti ters Patent is y 1. An EidjllStilblG truck consisting of for Ward and rear Wheeled axles; a body; cranklevers pivoted on the axles, and pivotallyj connected by their upper arms to the body i arins being formed With a for- Ward stop and a rear stop coacting with the body; connecting bars pivotally connecting the lower arms of the forward and rear crank levers on each side to effect their op eration in unison; a handle for the truck having a crank-end pivoted to the front of avaoea the body; and'a yoke pivoted at its forward end to the crank end of the handle and at its rear ends pivotally connected to the lower arms of the crank-levers of the front axle.

2. An adjustable truck consisting of for- Ward and rear Wheeled axles; a body; cranklevers pivoted on the projecting ends of the axles outside of the Wheels and pivot-ally connected by their upper arms to the bed connecting bars pivotally connecting the lower arms of the forward and rear cranklevers outside the Wheels on each side to effect their operation in unison; a handle for the truck having a crank end pivoted to the front of the body; and a yoke pivoted at its forward end to the crank-end of the handle and at its rear ends pivotally con nected outside the Wheels to the lower arms ofthe crank levers of the front axle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES PORTEOUS. iVit-nesses Micron M. BEARING- A. H. MCKENZIE. 

